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qbear and I are walking home through Glen Park, having picked up Bisquick and heavy cream at Safeway, and he's wondering aloud what should he do with all the blueberries he bought over the weekend.
"Should I make a cobbler? A buckle? A dowdy? A clafouti?"
"How about a betty?" I ask. "Or a crisp? Or a crumb?"
"They're all so similar," Jack says. "How about a Swedish pancake?"
Anyway, I was confused by all these terms, so I thought I'd look them up and share them with you, so you have them handy. I discovered there were two more we didn't remember, the grunt and the slump.
A betty is a baked pudding made of layers of sugared and spiced fruit and buttered bread crumbs.
A cobbler is a baked, deep-dish fruit dessert topped with a thick biscuit crust sprinkled with sugar.
Dowdy or pandowdy is a deep-dish dessert usually made of sliced apples, butter, spices, brown sugar or molasses, topped with a biscuit batter that becomes crisp and crumbly after baking. The name comes from the verb "to dowdy," to push the crisp baked crust under the fruit and baking liquid to moisten it.
Clafouti is a custard-like baked French dessert that is typically made by baking fresh fruit (traditionally cherries) and a batter, somewhat similar to pancake batter, in a baking dish.
Buckles are baked and are usually made in one or two ways, either with a cake-like bottom layer with berries mixed in, topped with a crumb layer, or with a cake layer on the bottom, topped with berries and then with crumbs.
In a crisp, the fruit filling is covered with a crunchy topping which is crumbled over the top and baked.
In a crumb or crumble, the topping is crumbled over the fruit filling in the pan and then baked. The topping may be less crunchy than in the crisp.
Grunts and slumps are the same thing: a stewed or baked fruit dish, with biscuit dough rolled and put on top of the fruit.
Swedish pancakes are thin and crepe-like and may be filled with fruit.
qbear and I are walking home through Glen Park, having picked up Bisquick and heavy cream at Safeway, and he's wondering aloud what should he do with all the blueberries he bought over the weekend."Should I make a cobbler? A buckle? A dowdy? A clafouti?"
"How about a betty?" I ask. "Or a crisp? Or a crumb?"
"They're all so similar," Jack says. "How about a Swedish pancake?"
Anyway, I was confused by all these terms, so I thought I'd look them up and share them with you, so you have them handy. I discovered there were two more we didn't remember, the grunt and the slump.
A betty is a baked pudding made of layers of sugared and spiced fruit and buttered bread crumbs.
A cobbler is a baked, deep-dish fruit dessert topped with a thick biscuit crust sprinkled with sugar.
Dowdy or pandowdy is a deep-dish dessert usually made of sliced apples, butter, spices, brown sugar or molasses, topped with a biscuit batter that becomes crisp and crumbly after baking. The name comes from the verb "to dowdy," to push the crisp baked crust under the fruit and baking liquid to moisten it.
Clafouti is a custard-like baked French dessert that is typically made by baking fresh fruit (traditionally cherries) and a batter, somewhat similar to pancake batter, in a baking dish.
Buckles are baked and are usually made in one or two ways, either with a cake-like bottom layer with berries mixed in, topped with a crumb layer, or with a cake layer on the bottom, topped with berries and then with crumbs.
In a crisp, the fruit filling is covered with a crunchy topping which is crumbled over the top and baked.
In a crumb or crumble, the topping is crumbled over the fruit filling in the pan and then baked. The topping may be less crunchy than in the crisp.
Grunts and slumps are the same thing: a stewed or baked fruit dish, with biscuit dough rolled and put on top of the fruit.
Swedish pancakes are thin and crepe-like and may be filled with fruit.
